MaartenJan Hoekstra is an assistant professor in Urban Design at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. He has been educated as an architect and urban designer in Delft, and as a linguist in Leiden and Amsterdam. Working at the chair of Theory and Methods of Urban Design as a researcher and teacher, he has been responsible for several research programmes and publications concerning the fundamentals of urbanism. He is also coordinating two theory courses in the Bachelor Architecture, Urbanism & Building Sciences at TU Delft and is a teacher in several other courses. In 2018 he obtained his PhD from TU Delft with a dissertation about notions in urban design. Since 2020 he is Programme Leader of the Bachelor Architecture, Urbanism & Building Sciences at TU Delft.